America and the Great War for Humanity and FreedomJ. C. Winston, 1917 - 352 страница |
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... centuries before the Christian era it was founded by the Megarians and Argives , under the lead of Byzas , from whom it took its ancient name , Byzantium . Tradition has it that the site was divinely selected and directed by the Delphic ...
... centuries before the Christian era it was founded by the Megarians and Argives , under the lead of Byzas , from whom it took its ancient name , Byzantium . Tradition has it that the site was divinely selected and directed by the Delphic ...
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... century of our era that the city was rebuilt by Constantine the Great , endowed with his name and made the Eastern ... centuries . You may still see there the stately ruins of the castle of Belisarius , the last of the great Roman ...
... century of our era that the city was rebuilt by Constantine the Great , endowed with his name and made the Eastern ... centuries . You may still see there the stately ruins of the castle of Belisarius , the last of the great Roman ...
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... centuries later before Greece attained the glory which made her unique among the nations of antiquity and still leaves her in memory the unrivaled wonder of the world . But long before the Dorian invasion this whole region was occupied ...
... centuries later before Greece attained the glory which made her unique among the nations of antiquity and still leaves her in memory the unrivaled wonder of the world . But long before the Dorian invasion this whole region was occupied ...
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... centuries . In the seventh century of our era they began their migration , by way of Astrakhan , the Crimea and the northern and western shores of the Black Sea , around to the Balkan region ; a horde of wild and savage horsemen ...
... centuries . In the seventh century of our era they began their migration , by way of Astrakhan , the Crimea and the northern and western shores of the Black Sea , around to the Balkan region ; a horde of wild and savage horsemen ...
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... century their existence and their name were almost forgotten by the world . THE SERBS The Serbs are a Slavonic people , kin to the Croats , and first appear in history in the writings of Pliny , who described them as an agricultural ...
... century their existence and their name were almost forgotten by the world . THE SERBS The Serbs are a Slavonic people , kin to the Croats , and first appear in history in the writings of Pliny , who described them as an agricultural ...
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Страница 26 - To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she can do no other.
Страница 20 - With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States...
Страница 23 - Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always in fact democratic at heart...
Страница 23 - A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocratic Government could be trusted to keep faith within it or observe its covenants.
Страница 181 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Страница 21 - While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months, and I do not believe that the thought of the nation has been altered or clouded by them.
Страница 19 - There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making — we will not choose the path of submission and suffer the most sacred rights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated.
Страница 230 - I am proposing, as it were, that the nations should with one accord adopt the doctrine of President Monroe as the doctrine of the world : that no nation should seek to extend its polity over any other nation or people, but that every people should be left free to determine its own polity, its own way of development, unhindered, unthreatened, unafraid, the little along with the great and powerful.
Страница 21 - Neutrality is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace...
Страница 23 - The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or purpose...